KPBS has learned that the Tijuana restaurant where authorities found three trash barrels filled with what they believe are human remains is owned by a man who was kidnapped in Chula Vista last year.
The man, Eduardo Gonzalez Tostado , is a witness in the state's case against his alleged captors. Ironically, across the border in Tijuana, he's wanted for kidnapping and ties to organized crime.
US Drug Enforcement officials suspect he's a high ranking member of Tijuana's Arellano Felix Drug Cartel.
The discovery of the presumed corpses outside Gonzalez Tostado's restuarant emphasizes that the recent spate of gruesome killings in Tijuana is aimed
The find also shows that the drug war does not stop at the San Diego Tijuana border. It is also being waged in San Diego.
On Tuesday, Tijuana authorities found what they believe are the remains of three bodies in trash barrels outside the seafood restaurant Mariscos Del Pacifico. Two more bodies, who's heads were covered with duck tape, were found in another location.
Authorities believe at least 18 murders in Tijuana since Monday are tied to organized crime. Both Monday and Tuesday the city awoke to corpses dumped around the city. The quantity of bodies that have been gruesomely tortured and killed has shocked the region.
The dead are the latest casualties in the US Mexico border region's ongoing drug war.
